Messenger

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) space probe is a robotic NASA spacecraft in orbit around the planet Mercury. The 485-kilogram (1, 070lb) spacecraft was launched aboard a Delta II rocket in August 2004 to study the chemical composition, geology, and magnetic field of Mercury. It became the second mission after 1975's Mariner 10 to reach Mercury successfully when it made a flyby in January 2008, followed by a second flyby in October 2008, and a third flyby in September 2009.MESSENGER is furthermore the first spacecraft ever to orbit Mercury.High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) space probe is a robotic NASA spacecraft in orbit around the planet Mercury.

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Messenger

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Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn

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Book on Demand Limited - 2012-02

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